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97 The Role of the Holy Spirit spiritual consolations, thousands of fruits, thousands of goods. So, if you had been oppressed before the holy feast, be it by your imperfections, or because of your desire to find God’s grace, or for some other pious rea- son, understand that you have thus received the Holy Spirit who will bring you unimaginable consolations.” 2 The Holy Spirit comes to man together with the Father and the Son. Jesus said: “If a man loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him” (Jn 14, 23). Jesus comes with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Wherever the Son announces His coming with the Father, the Holy Spirit must be there, too. When the Father comes with the Son, the Spirit as Comforter comes also. Overjoyed at their coming, Father Stanislaus cries out: “O Holy Trinity! O Father Most Holy, O Son Most Gracious, O Spirit Most Beloved, the dwelling of my soul stands open for You: come, hasten, but I am a sinful man.” 3 For Father Papczynski, the Holy Spirit alone is the greatest gift that can be bestowed upon man. When the Risen Jesus appeared to the Apostles, He breathed on them and said: “Receive the Holy Spirit!” (Jn 20, 22). This was His most precious gift to them. Father Papczynski expresses a conviction that we cannot possibly imagine a greater and more precious gift than this. What more, other than the Holy Spirit, could the Lord have bestowed upon His disciples from among His blessings, graces and charisms? When one has Him, he has everything! When one is guided by Him, he will not lose his way for he is being lead along a straight, safe path to the Heavenly Home! “Know that these are the marks of the Holy Spirit: joy, peace, wisdom, gentleness, patience, humility, discretion, foresight and the like. If such marks do not shine in you, you do not have even a spark of the Light in you, not to mention the Holy Spirit.” 4 *** In order to show the truth about the meaning of the Holy Spirit in man’s life, Father Matulaitis-Matulewicz recalls the words uttered by